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Walls of Fire and Shadow
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $2468.07
Salt sum: 37.97
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Commander

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Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Creature Enchantment
Mogis, God of Slaughter (sld) 78

Commander

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Instant

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Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 695
Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (cmm) 698
Pyroblast

Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's blue. • Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Instant
Pyroblast (ice) 213
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (vis) 72

Instant

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (brc) 132
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (akh) 225
Hazoret's Monument

Red creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Hazoret's Monument (akh) 229
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (lcc) 114
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (leb) 261
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (wth) 153
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (sld) 289
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (sld) 1494
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (sld) 1054
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (brc) 167
Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Urza's Incubator (uds) 142
Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (tsr) 402

Artifact

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Land

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Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 436
Badlands

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Land
Badlands (30a) 570
Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 329
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (rvr) 397
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ons) 313
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (tsr) 406
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (tor) 139
Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (zne) 22
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (brc) 178
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (pip) 493
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (pw21) 4
Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}. {B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Graven Cairns (exp) 28
Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 602
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 437
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (drk) 117
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (inv) 345
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (ody) 346
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ons) 321
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (h1r) 40
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 439
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (atq) 82c
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (ice) 360
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (por) 204
Tainted Peak

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Peak (tor) 142
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 339
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (pw23) 11
Urborg

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

Land
Urborg (leg) 310
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 440
Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Wooded Foothills (ons) 330

Land

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Creature

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Aether Membrane

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Creature
Aether Membrane (plc) 93
Aetherflame Wall

Defender This creature can block creatures with shadow as though they didn't have shadow. {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Aetherflame Wall (tsp) 142
Ashenmoor Liege

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1. Other red creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, that player loses 4 life.

Creature
Ashenmoor Liege (2x2) 473
Barrier of Bones

Defender When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Barrier of Bones (grn) 61
Blight Pile

Defender {2}{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

Creature
Blight Pile (dmu) 82
Cemetery Gate

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Protection from black

Creature
Cemetery Gate (hml) 44b
Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible {10}: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact
Colossus of Akros (ths) 214
Concealing Curtains

Creature
Concealing Curtains // Revealing Eye (dbl) 368Concealing Curtains // Revealing Eye (dbl) 368
Consulate Skygate

Defender Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact
Consulate Skygate (kld) 202
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Crenellated Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crenellated Wall (mmq) 290
Gleaming Barrier

Defender When this creature dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Gleaming Barrier (rix) 178
Guardian of the Ages

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, if this creature has defender, it loses defender and gains trample.

Creature Artifact
Guardian of the Ages (m14) 211
Guardians of Meletis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Guardians of Meletis (ths) 217
Living Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Creature Artifact
Living Wall (leb) 259
Moaning Wall

Defender Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Moaning Wall (hou) 72
Nesting Dragon

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 0/2 red Dragon Egg creature token with defender and "When this token dies, create a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying and '{R}: This token gets +1/+0 until end of turn.'"

Creature
Nesting Dragon (cmm) 546
Shield Sphere

Defender Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238
Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Steel Wall (mrd) 248
Tree of Perdition

Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Perdition (j22) 75
Tsabo Tavoc

First strike, protection from legendary creatures {B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target legendary creature. It can't be regenerated.

Creature
Tsabo Tavoc (inv) 281
Tuktuk Rubblefort

Defender, reach Creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Tuktuk Rubblefort (znr) 173
Vent Sentinel

Defender {1}{R}, {T}: This creature deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature
Vent Sentinel (roe) 171
Walking Bulwark

Defender {2}: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact
Walking Bulwark (dmu) 241
Wall of Bone

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Creature
Wall of Bone (leb) 133
Wall of Diffusion

Defender (This creature can't attack.) This creature can block creatures with shadow as though it had shadow.

Creature
Wall of Diffusion (tmp) 211
Wall of Dust

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature can't attack during its controller's next turn.

Creature
Wall of Dust (leg) 168
Wall of Earth

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Earth (leg) 169
Wall of Fire

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Wall of Fire (leb) 182
Wall of Granite

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Granite (por) 155
Wall of Heat

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Heat (leg) 170
Wall of Putrid Flesh

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Protection from white Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by enchanted creatures.

Creature
Wall of Putrid Flesh (leg) 127
Wall of Shadows

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures it's blocking. This creature can't be the target of spells that can target only Walls or of abilities that can target only Walls.

Creature
Wall of Shadows (leg) 128
Wall of Shields

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Banding (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

Creature Artifact
Wall of Shields (ice) 347
Wall of Souls

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Creature
Wall of Souls (sth) 75
Wall of Stone

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Stone (leb) 183
Weathered Sentinels

Defender, vigilance, reach, trample This creature can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender. Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Weathered Sentinels (ncc) 185
Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. Flying, deathtouch, haste Other creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

Creature
Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats (znr) 372

Creature

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Sorcery

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (brc) 113
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sta) 27
Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Insurrection (ons) 213
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 412

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Impact Tremors (sld) 313
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (ulg) 56
Oubliette

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Enchantment
Oubliette (arn) 31

Enchantment

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Commander (Alternate)

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Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 324
The Lord of Pain

Menace Your opponents can't gain life. Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Creature
The Lord of Pain (dsc) 3
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice. Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls. {3}: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent (sld) 1271

Commander (Alternate)

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Maybeboard

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Phyresis

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Enchantment
Phyresis (mbs) 49
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (apc) 47
Sentinel

{0}: Change this creature's base toughness to 1 plus the power of target creature blocking or blocked by this creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature Artifact
Sentinel (leg) 294
Stormfist Crusader

Menace At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Stormfist Crusader (dsc) 234
Suspicious Bookcase

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Suspicious Bookcase (m19) 246
Wall of Lava

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Wall of Lava (ice) 223
Wall of Tombstones

Defender (This creature can't attack.) At the beginning of your upkeep, change this creature's base toughness to 1 plus the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature
Wall of Tombstones (leg) 129

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Tokens & Extras

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Dragon

Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Token
Dragon (tcmm) 20
Dragon Egg

Defender When this creature dies, create a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying and "{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Creature Token
Dragon Egg (tcmm) 22
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tafr) 15

Tokens & Extras

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{"ops":[{"insert":"In shadows deep, where walls do rise,\nKardur, Doomscourge, hears the cries.\nGuardians strong, a sturdy wall,\nTo hold back foes who heed the call.\n\nA towering colossus, stands alone,\nIn defense, an impenetrable zone.\nA nest of dragons, fiery and bold,\nProtect the realm with scales of gold.\n\nThe barriers tall, of stone and flame,\nThrough them, none shall lay their claim.\nIn Nyx's shrine, dark powers brew,\nKardur's wrath, unleashed anew.\n\nAmidst the peaks, where doom does reign,\nKardur's power shall forever reign.\nA deck of walls, a fortress grand,\nProtected by a mighty hand.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDepending on your playgroup you can choose one of the \"Alternate\" Commanders. Mogis helps push the game along (and is arguably the 'best' out of the three) while Xantcha allows for more table politicking.\n\n"}]}
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